Author Review: Ellis Peters
Ellis Peters’ most popular series are The Cadfael Chronicles, about a mediaeval monk and The Inspector George Felse Mysteries, about a police inspector.
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Catching up with Ryan Butta
Last month the SMSA had the pleasure of hosting an eye-opening author talk by writer Ryan Butta. The talk explored Ryan’s latest book The Ballad…
Chai Time at Cinnamon Gardens by Shankari Chandran
‘Opportunity and refuge: the privilege of the migrant Australian. Our lifelong responsibility and debt to be repaid. Opportunity and refuge: the entitlement of the white…
A God in Ruins by Kate Atkinson
The follow up to Life after Life, A God in Ruins centers on Teddy Todd. Following his development boy to man, touching on how war…
Hammered by Elizabeth Bear
Hammered by Elizabeth Bear is Book 1 of the Jenny Casey series (AKA the Wetwired series) and won the 2007 Locus Award for First…
The Cloning of Joanna May by Fay Weldon
The Cloning of Joanna May by Fay Weldon, is both funny and disturbing, using humour to examine the very real ethical issues around cloning and…
The Wartime Book Club by Kate Thompson
Reading was the only true form of joy and solace, the only intellectual freedom they still possessed and they cherished it like life itself. Another…
Maureen Fry and the Angel of the North (Harold Fry #3) by Rachel Joyce
‘How do we do it? How do we accept the unacceptable?’ This is the last book in the trilogy that began with the wonderful The…
The Hawkenlye Mysteries by Alys Clare
The Hawkenlye Mysteries by Alys Claren is a series of 16 fantasy novels set in the era of Kind Richard the Lionheart.
All Souls Trilogy by Deborah Harkness
An immensely readable trilogy, to be found in the Science Fiction part of the Library, the books are in order A Discovery of Witches, Shadow…
A Fatal Grace (Three Pines #2) by Louise Penny
Sigh…the village of Three Pines…don’t we all want to live there? ‘It has croissants and cafe au lait. It has steak frites and the New…
Relic by Preston & Child
Relic by Preston & Child is the first novel in the SA Pendergast series, and FBI Agent without jurisdiction, he must solve the mystery of…